Graphic styles

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Illustrator offers a lot of different ways to work smarter. Graphic styles can be used to store object appearance formatting like stroke, fill, and effects, so that you can easily apply and even update that formatting later. In this video, you’ll learn all about how to create and edit graphic styles and also see a very useful use for them.

- [Instructor] Illustrator offers a lot of different ways…to work smarter.…And graphic styles are one of those ways.…In this video, I'll introduce you to graphic styles…and show you a really cool use for them aside from…the obvious, as you'll see.…A graphic style allows us to take an object like…let's say this square over here and save the…formatting from it.…You can save things like fills and strokes and effects…and all kinds of different things.…So to do it, click on an object you have formatting…applied to, like this rectangle.…Come over to the Appearance Panel just to take a look.…

And you can see we've got a lot of strokes…and fills, as a matter of fact…the X in the middle was created by…an extra stroke with a free distort applied.…Come to Graphic Styles, and to create a style…just click New Graphic Style down here and it will…copy the formatting off that artwork…and save it in here.…You can then double click the thumbnail…and we can call it something like…Figure Placeholder, or whatever you decide to call it.…

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2/16/2017

Work smarter and faster with Adobe Illustrator to design your next web or app project, starting with wireframes. Brian Wood shows how, in this course, building upon what you already know—making shapes, working with layers, and using guides—and focusing on the features needed to effectively work with text, symbols, libraries, and a lot more. Brian demonstrates how to set up your artboards and use grids, masks, and styles to fulfill common UX design needs, from organizing content and buttons to making a layout responsive. He concludes by taking you through the export process.